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Adrienne Rich is a poet, essayist, writer (United States).
Adrienne Cecile Rich ( AD-ree-ən; May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse". Rich criticized rigid forms of feminist identities, and valorized what she coined the "lesbian continuum", which is a female continuum of solidarity and creativity that impacts and fills women's lives. Her first collection of poetry, A Change of World, was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. Auden went on to write the introduction to the book. Rich famously declined the National Medal of Arts to protest House Speaker Newt Gingrich's vote to end funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.
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| Born | 16 May 1929 |
| Profession | poet, essayist, writer |
| Nationality | United States |
| Employer | Brandeis University, Cornell University, Columbia University |
| Educated at | Radcliffe College, Harvard University |
| Spouse | Alfred Haskell Conrad |
| Awards | Poets' Prize, Bollingen Prize, Lambda Literary Award, Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, National Book Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, MacArthur Fellows Program, Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service, hono |
| Moon Sign (Rashi) | Leo |
| Nakshatra | Purva Phalguni (Pada 1) |
| Sun Sign | Taurus |
| Ascendant (Lagna) | Virgo |
| Birth data reliability | Reference |
Birth details come from a published reference (source: Internet) and have not been checked against a birth record, so the Moon sign is usually right but the Ascendant could differ.
Computed with Swiss Ephemeris (Lahiri ayanamsa).
Our library holds 314 writers and poets with a computed Vedic chart from reliable birth data. 25 of them (8%) have the Moon in Leo, like Adrienne Rich, and 15 (5%) share the Purva Phalguni Nakshatra — the #5 most common Moon Nakshatra among writers and poets, where Shravana leads with 18 (6%).
For scale, an even spread would put about 3.7% in each of the 27 Nakshatras and 8.3% in each Moon sign. These are simple counts from our dataset, not a prediction.
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Adrienne Rich was born on 16 May 1929. Birth details come from a published reference (source: Internet) and have not been checked against a birth record, so the Moon sign is usually right but the Ascendant could differ.
Adrienne Rich's Moon sign (Rashi) is Leo and the Nakshatra is Purva Phalguni, pada 1, computed with Swiss Ephemeris using the Lahiri ayanamsa.
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